Genetic factors and the environment cause depression via different molecular pathways in rats, according a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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MD/PhD student Sai Folmsbee aims to understand the role of the protein αT-catenin, found in heart cells, in the development of asthma.
The loss of a component of a protein complex responsible for attaching cells together activates genes that lead to the buildup of fibrous scar tissue seen in cardiac disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, according to a recent study.
Northwestern Medicine scientists shed light on a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease that has been poorly understood, the buildup of a protein called α-synuclein in the brain.
By rotating special magnetic nanoparticles injected into brain tumors, a team of scientists led by Northwestern Medicine neurosurgical oncologist Maciej (Matt) Lesniak, MD, successfully damaged tumor cells in animal models.
HIV still replicates in lymphoid tissue, even when it is undetectable in the blood of patients on antiretroviral drugs, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
Scientists showed that it is possible to specifically modify gene expression in diseased upper motor neurons in a new Northwestern Medicine translational study.
Rui Yang, a graduate student in the Driskill Graduate Program, studied the chromatin structure and expression of the gene that, when mutated, causes cystic fibrosis.
A recent study led by Elizabeth Perlman, MD, discovered a new genetic mutation in the most common type of pediatric kidney cancer, Wilms tumor.
Research conducted in the laboratory of Derek Wainwright, PhD, assistant professor of Neurological Surgery, explores strategies to reverse pathways that inhibit the body’s immune system from fighting glioblastoma.